ZPT, a next-generation template technology

[Andrew Kuchling]

"Hamish Lawson" <hamish_lawson at btinternet.com> writes:
> The approach that the ZPT project is pursuing is to attach the control-
> flow, formatting and placeholder directives as *attributes* of standard
> XHTML tags. The example above thus becomes something like:

After a glance at the initial specs, I like it; it looks like a
simpler processing language than XSLT, and one more suited to
interfacing with some other imperative language.  Given the recent
squabbling over the scripting features in XSL, there's probably a
significant niche for something like this.

You've notified various generic scripting communities, but you should
also really let the XML community know about this work; they're more
likely to take an interest.  Send a note to mailing lists such as
xml-dev, or to news sites such as xmlhack.com, xml.com, and
xml.coverpages.org.  comp.text.xml exists, but discussion is
relatively low-level and few serious developers hang out there.

--amk